Albums by Ry Cooder
ALBUMGET ON BOARDTaj Mahal & Ry Cooder
ALBUMThe Prodigal SonRy Cooder
ALBUMElection SpecialRy Cooder
ALBUMPull Up Some Dust and Sit DownRy Cooder
ALBUMSan Patricio (feat. Ry Cooder)The Chieftains
ALBUMI, FlatheadRy Cooder
ALBUMMy Name Is BuddyRy Cooder
ALBUMChávez RavineRy Cooder
ALBUMMambo SinuendoManuel Galban & Ry Cooder
ALBUMHollow BambooRonu Majumdar, Ry Cooder, Jon Hassell & Abhijit Banerjee
Ry Cooder's Popular Music Videos
Cancion Mixteca (feat. Ry Cooder & Los Tigres del Norte) [Music Video]
The Chieftains
Woody Guthrie At 100! / "This Land Is Your Land"
Ani DiFranco, Dan Gellert, Donovan, Jackson Browne, Jimmy LaFave, Joel Rafael, John Leventhal, John Mellencamp, Judy Collins, Lucinda Williams, Old Crow Medicine Show, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Rosanne Cash, Ry Cooder, Sweet Honey In The Rock, The Del McCoury Band, Tim O'Brien, Tom Morello & Tony Trischka
This Is Hip (feat. Ry Cooder)
John Lee Hooker
Artist Playlists
Ry Cooder Essentials
The cult hero who rules the roots-guitar roost.
Ry Cooder: Deep Cuts
Experimental productions and hard-driving political songs.
Artist Biography
Ry Cooder is regarded as one of America’s greatest guitar stylists, a distinction he’s earned through classic solo albums as well as groundbreaking collaborations. Born in Los Angeles in 1947, Cooder first turned heads with the rootsy rockers Rising Sons, whose members also included bluesman Taj Mahal and future Spirit drummer Ed Cassidy. With a lean, wiry style and a special gift for slide guitar, he became a ubiquitous L.A. session player in the late ’60s, working with Captain Beefheart, The Rolling Stones, and many others. In 1970, his self-titled debut album kicked off a long string of cult classics combining old-school country, folk, and blues material with contemporary influences. By the ’80s, he had become an in-demand soundtrack composer, creating scores for The Border, Paris, Texas, and more. In the ’90s, his pancultural collaborations with Indian guitarist V. M. Bhatt and Malian guitarist Ali Farka Touré on A Meeting By the River and Talking Timbuktu, respectively, helped popularize West African and South Asian sounds in the U.S. But the monolith in that regard is the 1997 Buena Vista Social Club album he oversaw in Havana, featuring an older generation of master Cuban musicians performing classic Cuban material. The Grammy-winning record became an international phenomenon, with intercontinental touring and a Wim Wenders documentary. The mercurial Cooder continued his rootsy explorations on later albums like 2005’s Chávez Ravine and 2018’s The Prodigal Son.
Hometown
Los Angeles, CA, United States
Genre
Rock